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Analysis of Ireland track racing's Olympic potential

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  • #2
    Enduro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭Enduro


    Very interesting article. Thanks for that.


  • #3
    scottreynolds
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    Interesting to see the age differences of the irish riders team compared to the others.


  • #4
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Little bit disingenuous article although have the greatest respect for Paddy Doran.
    Most of the teams at this years worlds were development teams .
    For example the Britishh team at the olympics were aged 28/35/23 and 22. Hayes at 35 and Newton at 36 were on the fringe of the squad as well.

    Also DOL underperformed at this years worlds due to illness. Hes got a sub 4:20 in him which is on the fringe of the medals.

    Taylor Phinney is a freak , just one of those exceptional athletes. Just a pity he changed from the Garmin development team to Lances U23 set up :(

    Ireland have Sean Downey (19) going forward and there is a talent id system in place. Interesting to see how the new high performance director will prioritise the track (he's just taken up the position)


  • #5
    Quigs Snr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Quigs Snr


    Good post Robfowl. Paddy is a legend, done a few coaching days with him. His data is interesting, but ultimately age is not necessarily the huge sole limiting factor - it would be a difficult argument to justify considering the age profile of the dominant british A team as you mentioned. I would say that the lack of accessibility to a championship class track would be much more serious (Sams performances last year notwithstanding !), ultimately their riders concentrate on the track, ours concentrate on the road with a few trips to Newport every now and then. You won't win anything until you make an investment...

    The ID system is interesting, I was looking at the equipment in one of the testers houses and it seems like a very painful albeit brief process - they look at your height, weight etc.. and then put you through 4 minutes of hell. I was extended an offer to try to it see how I compared, I might give it a bash in another few weeks, I like embarassing myself like that !


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